The Roebuck Public House is a Grade II listed building in the Central Bedfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 May 1974. Public house. 6 related planning applications.

The Roebuck Public House

WRENN ID
eternal-groin-hyssop
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Central Bedfordshire
Constituency
Dunstable and Leighton Buzzard MP: Alex Mayer (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
27 May 1974
Type
Public house
Address
The Roebuck Public House, 2, Hockliffe Street, Leighton-Linslade, LU7 1HJ
OS grid reference
SP 922 250
Coordinates
51.91666, -0.66067
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Roebuck Public House is an early 18th-century building located on Hockliffe Street in Leighton Buzzard. It features a Flemish bond brickwork with red stretchers and grey headers. The building has a steeply pitched old tiled gabled roof, complete with a cornice and a hipped casement dormer. It stands two storeys high with attics and includes a first-floor band.

On the north elevation, there are four windows: two sash windows, one wood transom and mullion casement, all with glazing bars, and one dummy window. The ground floor has been altered and previously featured a door surround with fluted Doric pilasters and an entablature with a pulvinated frieze. The west elevation includes a ground floor bay window, two first-floor sash windows set in wide flush frames under segmental arches, and an attic two-light casement window in the gable end.

Local climate

The Roebuck Public House sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 740 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 76% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 81% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 60% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.

Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.

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